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BVZZZLh V, o'CONltELIi. 825 �KtmbatiTi V. Thb Countt of Stantok. �{Cirouit Court, D. NebraOca. November 10, 1880.) 1. Pleadoig— Genbraij Issue— DsNiAifc �, for plaintiff . �, for defendant. ���McCeaet, 0. J. This îs a motion to mate a part of thô answer more specifie. The general allegation of the answer is that defendant denies each and every material allegation of the petition. The motion requires him to specify what is denied and what is admitted. As a matter of course, the pleader is not to be the judge as to what is material and what is not. A deniai of the material allegations is not a sufficient deniai of the general issue. ���BuzzEUi and others v. O'Connell. �{Gircuit Gowt, D. Massachusetts. October 15, 1880.) �1. Patent No. 100,229, issued to Herbert L. Willis, for an împroved sand-paper holder for finishing or ■' buffing " the soles of boots and shoes, suttained. �In Equity. �George S. BoutweU and Chas. Allen Taher, for complainants. �Chauncey Smith and Samuel W. Batea, for defendant.- �LowBLL, C. J. Herbert L. Willis obtained patent No. 100,- 229, now the property of the complainants, for an improved sand-paper holder for finishing, or "buffing" the soles of boots and shoes. He described a cylinder formed of two halvea hinged together ; round each half the sand-paper was wrapped, and its edges were brought together on the inside of the cyl- inder and kept tight by pins and dowels ; journals were showii to which each end of the cylinder was attached by screws. The old f orm of holder was described as solid, with the sand-paper ����